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I get shoulder pains too, but not from weight lifting, it's usually from sleeping wrong.

Hot shower or bath. Soak the shoulders in hot water so they will revive faster. Icey Hot sleeves are also pretty good or get the balm.

Not much you really can do unfortunately. If its a sore joint then it will just need time to heel. Do you take anything for joint support such as Flaxseed oil or fish oil?

Yeah, I take fish oil. I can tell that the fish oil has been helping my knees. My knees are so bad, I couldn't even imagine doing squats a few years ago... now I'm up to almost 200 lbs on my squats (still not much, but a big deal for me).

I guess I'll just try a hot shower and rest. I know it would probably be fine in a few days if I just didn't do anything but I don't want to take a few days off from lifting.

As a side note, I've been taking fish oil, B12, a multi-vitamin, and protein since November and this is the first winter I can ever remember getting all the way through without getting sick (knock on wood).

rest it man, i had the same thing and it sucks taking time off from doing shoulders. But its worth the time off to heal it right or it will just get worse.

Pretty much this. Research rotator cuff rehab and do some of those movements with resistance bands and such. Helped me out greatly. I still have some scar tissue in my right shoulder that bothers me on flat bench at elevated resistance levels but there was a time when I couldn't throw a softball overhand back to the pitcher a few years ago.

Rest won't necessarily do anything for it. I tore my rotator cuff, and granted Im not sure if the OP has done that, but since then I have had a few dislocations, and time does nothing. The time I take off it feels better, but the second I get back into something I feel it.

Right now, I am unable to sleep on my right side at night, I cannot do dumbbell military press or any exercises which are single arms and presses over head. It is pretty. I have an MRI coming up, well my doctor just put one for me so hopefully soon.

Things you can do to help the most are exercises with the stretch band/resistance band, as well as using a very light dumbbel (no more than 10 pounds, if that) and do rotator cuff rotations holding the weight. I can help you if the problem persists, because Im going through it right now.

Rest won't necessarily do anything for it. I tore my rotator cuff, and granted Im not sure if the OP has done that, but since then I have had a few dislocations, and time does nothing. The time I take off it feels better, but the second I get back into something I feel it.

Right now, I am unable to sleep on my right side at night, I cannot do dumbbell military press or any exercises which are single arms and presses over head. It is pretty. I have an MRI coming up, well my doctor just put one for me so hopefully soon.

Things you can do to help the most are exercises with the stretch band/resistance band, as well as using a very light dumbbel (no more than 10 pounds, if that) and do rotator cuff rotations holding the weight. I can help you if the problem persists, because Im going through it right now.

Same here. I can give info to either of you. I went down this road. Went down it quite a ways.... No one has mentioned it, but NSAIDS. Just go get some Aleve or generic Naproxen to help swelling it there is any.

I tore my rotator cuff pitching. Went through PT, rest, cortisone shots and finally went under the knife. It sucked. But 2 days after surgery my shoulder felt better than it had in months.

Still not sure what I'm going to do. I'm definitely going to take a break on certain exercises -- flys, military presses, high cable curls -- but I'm think I'm just going to try going through with my chest workout tonight.

On the one hand, I'm really not in much pain. I don't want to take time off of lifting for a minor little injury that I can just work through.

On the other hand, it does feel like there's something weird going on in my shoulder and I definitely don't want to turn a minor injury into a major one.

I think I'm going to give it a go on the chest workout tonight without going too heavy on the weight and we'll see how it goes. If I get pain in my shoulder I'll stop.